bagpus Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 My Vegas disk cracked, I done some searching and found out the that the cause of the crack was me! the DVD's tend to get quite warm and when you remove them from the xbox and snapped it over the retainer on the DVD case it, it causes a hairline crack and gets weaker each time you add and remove the DVD. funny thing is i have never ever had this happen on audio cd's or DVDs. could be cheap DVD used on the xbox games. using a sleve or pressing down the retainer then letting the dvd drop down helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanManIt Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 I had no idea that so many games have cracked while in the system. Glad it hasn't happened to me or anyone I know yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted March 23, 2009 Author Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2009 I replaced the console at Best Buy and the manager (I work there, so my manager) gave me a new World at War copy for $25. As an added bonus, I got myself a Jasper unit now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qumahlin Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 It's unlikely the 360 cracked your disc, its more likely the disc had already developed a small crack and when it got spun up in the 360 it made it worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuballer10 Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 was it completely in the disc tray? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted March 25, 2009 Author Veteran Share Posted March 25, 2009 was it completely in the disc tray? Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted March 25, 2009 Veteran Share Posted March 25, 2009 You sure it was the 360, and not the case? I've had 3 different halo 3 dvds crack cause of the stupid ass dvd case it comes in. Had to pay 20$ and ship the cracked cd to ms to get a replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted March 25, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted March 25, 2009 Were you hosting a 150 person rave in your living room whilst playing your 360? just want to keep adding to the questions that somehow imply user error is the problem :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted March 25, 2009 Author Veteran Share Posted March 25, 2009 You sure it was the 360, and not the case? I've had 3 different halo 3 dvds crack cause of the stupid ass dvd case it comes in. Had to pay 20$ and ship the cracked cd to ms to get a replacement. When I took it out to put the movie in, I didn't put it back in the case. After watching the movie, I put it back in the tray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgEnTsMiTh Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Mine did the exact same thing and it was only 1 month old. NEVER MOVED IT. Laying flat etc. They are putting **** poor DVD Drives in the 360. Every game I purchase now I pay the 3.00 for a warranty so I can swap when it does happen again and I know it will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted March 25, 2009 Veteran Share Posted March 25, 2009 Tell me about it. I gave up on the Xbox 360 back in 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgEnTsMiTh Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Tell me about it. I gave up on the Xbox 360 back in 2007. I gave up too. My son has his 360 now and I just stick to my PS3 which never gives me any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 XBOX 360 has to be one of the most lousy products on the market in the history of consumer electronics. When it works its a fantastic entertainment system but these things just have so many faults most of which can all be pin pointed to a lack of Money being spent in the Build Quality. Almost makes you wish Microsoft would license the OS separate to the Hardware so we can pickup an Optical Drive a Case a Motherboard and just drop in the same CPU and GPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 A disk cracking from the center outwards wouldn't be caused by the disk drive unit... well not directly. It's cause by a faulty disk, while the amount of faulty disk is low, due to the sheer amount of game disks made, it will happen, and it will happen relatively often of you count every instance globally. On an individual basis though, it's virtually non existent and the chances of a disk cracking on you is probably less than winning the lottery :) As said, the disk drive itself isn't the cause of the crack, directly, or rather it's what makes it crack, simply from the force it exercise on the disk from spinning it, but that's what it's intended to do, and a non flawed disk is capable of sustaining far more fore than the drive can put on it. so even your brand new jasper unit would have cracked the disk :) Still the effect is probably reported more on the 360 partly because there are more 360 out there, and they hae a higher attachment rate (so there's a lot more game disk being produced and used). But also because the PS3 has a lower speed drive, and the extra protective coating the BluRay disk require for scracth protection because of the way they where designed, may help them be sustain higher forces as well, wich mean seven if there is a flaw, the flaw itself may be abel to sustain higher forces, unless it's a fatal flaw, wich would.. or should... be detected at the production plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgEnTsMiTh Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Let me clarify what happened to mine. It did not crack. My sons 360 is scratching the disc leaving a ring and no longer readable. This is what MS was trying to lie about saying it only does it if your moving it while playing something which is BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad. Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Let me clarify what happened to mine. It did not crack. My sons 360 is scratching the disc leaving a ring and no longer readable. This is what MS was trying to lie about saying it only does it if your moving it while playing something which is BS. As briefly talked about above, British TV show ''Watchdog'' ran tests to see what caused the XBOX 360 console to leave rings on disks, thorough tests were used and vibrations imitating floor vibrations caused the XBOX 360 to leave a ring on the disc. The show compared the vibrations to be likely when playing Rock Band or Guitar Hero World Tour. The rings could be left for a number of reasons - vibrations from around the console, tilting the console while the disc is spinning (happened to me), or because of a faulty drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koftheworld Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Let me clarify what happened to mine. It did not crack. My sons 360 is scratching the disc leaving a ring and no longer readable. This is what MS was trying to lie about saying it only does it if your moving it while playing something which is BS. I've heard of people renting or borrowing the game, installing it to the hd, and then running the game from there using the scratched disk...unnecessary hoop to jump through, but it is a suggestion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sorlag Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Is that disc not fixed somehow? My old GameCube disks don't flap around... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coresx Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Microsoft are just being incredibly cheap and lying about the issue. People aren't moving the console when the disc gets scratched. Hopefully the class action lawsuit finds them guilty. Think about it, have you every in your life had your DVD player standalone, PC tower, last gen consoles, laptop ever scratch a disc ? I doubt many have. Microsoft are in the wrong, 100%. Look what it took for them to admit RROD was an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldgunner Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Microsoft are a software company, Sony a hardware company it shows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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